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The Cambridge Companion to Hume
David Fate Norton
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Description for The Cambridge Companion to Hume
Paperback. The fifteen essays in this second edition of this highly popular Companion address all aspects of Hume's wide-ranging thought. Editor(s): Norton, David Fate; Taylor, Jacqueline. Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy. Num Pages: 578 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 35. Weight in Grams: 866.
Although best known for his contributions to the theory of knowledge, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion, Hume also influenced developments in the philosophy of mind, psychology, ethics, political and economic theory, political and social history, and aesthetic theory. The fifteen essays in this volume address all aspects of Hume's thought. The picture of him that emerges is that of a thinker who, though often critical to the point of scepticism, was nonetheless able to build on that scepticism a constructive, viable, and profoundly important view of the world. Also included in this volume are Hume's two brief autobiographies and a ... Read more
Although best known for his contributions to the theory of knowledge, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion, Hume also influenced developments in the philosophy of mind, psychology, ethics, political and economic theory, political and social history, and aesthetic theory. The fifteen essays in this volume address all aspects of Hume's thought. The picture of him that emerges is that of a thinker who, though often critical to the point of scepticism, was nonetheless able to build on that scepticism a constructive, viable, and profoundly important view of the world. Also included in this volume are Hume's two brief autobiographies and a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
578
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
Number of Pages
578
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521677349
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V9780521677349
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About David Fate Norton
David Fate Norton is Professor of Moral Philosophy Emeritus, McGill University, and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, University of Victoria. He has published widely on Hume and eighteenth-century British philosophy, and recently co-edited the first critical edition of Hume's Treatise of Human Nature. Jacqueline Taylor is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco. She has published on Hume's ... Read more
Reviews for The Cambridge Companion to Hume
'The breadth of The Cambridge Companion to Hume matches the sweeping scope of Hume's thought. … Even though each essay considers in depth a distinct area of Hume's thinking, this volume has the cohesiveness of a text, with some of the authors writing with an explicit awareness of other essays included in the collection … Norton has admirably produced a ... Read more